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Digital Music Percentages
A disconnect exists between the % of digital music consumed and the % of Record Label sales derived from those digital sales. EMI’s CEO, Elio Leoni-Sceti, recently stated that “seventy percent of music consumption is digital and yet only about twenty percent of music company revenues are derived from digital.” It is likely that 80% [...]
EMI Income
EMI has just announced some better financials for fiscal year ending March ’09. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, & amortization) were up an astonishing 219% from the year before. EBITDA was $246 million. This compares rather favorably to the prior year’s numbers of $77 million. A few facts within this increase is that a [...]
Record Labels
The market share numbers for the major labels have been released. They pretty much stayed close to ’07 numbers. Here are market share numbers as of the end of 2008 for the big 4: Universal – 31.52% (down from 31.9% in ’07) Sony – 25.3% (up from 24.97% in ’07) Warner – 21.38% (up from [...]
Digital EMI
EMI has launched a new platform in Beta on their main URL www.emi.com. Here one can peruse artist videos, biographies, songs, etc. This site has a iTunes look to it. A very simple and clean look. The site has a dual purpose. The obvious one is to be a hub for information and content for [...]
EMI & Warner’s International Alliance
Two of the big record labels, EMI & Warner, have been entering into some very strategic international partnerships lately. Warner Music Group is the distributor of EMI’s music in both physical and digital formats for the Asian region. EMI in turn is the distributor of Warner in the Middle East. Now, a deal has been [...]
iPhone Game
We have seen the recent success of games such as Guitar Hero where the labels have sold a number of tracks through these games. It appears that this is the inspiration for a recent announcement by EMI that they will join with the iPhone and the Tap Tap application game. Music from EMI artists will [...]
EMI Restructuring
EMI, the major record label in last place in terms of market share out of the 4 major labels, has a restructuring plan to try to improve their business. Remember, EMI is the company that has Coldplay as an artist. They also have a very successful music publishing side of the business. But, they have [...]
EMI’s Decrescendo
EMI, one of the big 4 record labels, continues to struggle. Last year, they controlled 10% of the recorded music market, and that is now down to 9.5% this year. They also just released numbers showing a loss of US$1.2 Billion for year ending March 31. At least they were blunt about the cause – [...]
Major Labels
Over this past weekend, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the music industry. I was talking about the way that some of the big name artists were moving away from the major labels to companies like Live Nation that offered ’360 deals’ and touring venues throughout the world. I described how [...]
EMI Digital Store
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the record label EMI launching a digital store in Australia. It seemed like that was a test at some level to see if the concept would work in other markets. Well, EMI has just announced plans for a worldwide launch by the end of this year. They are [...]
